The Rosary Hour with Jasmin and Company
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5/6/2021 The rosary hour with Jasmin and company 1 Opening prayer • Cha Thương Nguyễn • Cha Joseph Trần 2 1 5/6/2021 Agenda • Opening/Closing songs • Cayetano Trio has night off • King of rock and roll will fill in • If we are long, I will skip closing song • Pray the rosary • Just the rosary • Before Zoom • We used this in October 2019 in the church • Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary • Titles of Mother Mary have commentary by Fr. Rocky of Relevant Radio • Edited so we can get it done today 3 Miracle of the Rosary Elvis 4 2 5/6/2021 Luminous Mysteries Quiet Waters Media 5 Litany of Blessed Virgin Mary • Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. • Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. 6 3 5/6/2021 • God the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us. • God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us. • God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us. • Holy Trinity, one God, Have mercy on us. 7 Holy Mary, pray for us. • The very first title in the Litany of Our Lady is the shortest and perhaps the deepest. It’s just two words, “Holy Mary”, to which the faithful respond, “Pray for us.” “Holy” is an adjective to describe Our Lady as dedicated to God. A person cannot be Holy if they are not a friend of God, and of all the friends God has, Mary is His best friend, but she is also our mother. 8 4 5/6/2021 Holy Mother of God, pray for us. • Mary is Mother of God because she is the mother of Jesus, and Jesus is God. True God and True Man. The title “Mother of God” is found in the second part of the Hail Mary prayer, and comes from the Greek word “Theotokos” which literally means “the one who bears God” and has been in use by Christians since the 200s in the Holy Land. • In the year 431 AD, at the Third Ecumenical Council of all of the Bishops of the Church, held in the ancient city of Ephesus, the Church Fathers Proclaimed the First Dogma of Our Lady, that Mary is “Mother of God.” 9 Holy Virgin of virgins, pray for us. • This is the third title of Our Lady in the Litany of Loreto, In our contemporary Western post-Christian culture, virginity is rarely appreciated, hardly expected, and commonly misunderstood as if it were a weakness of character, when in fact, it is the opposite. • Consider the lives and example of some of the great saints who were Virgins and completely committed to Jesus Christ: Our Lady, St. John the Apostle, Saint Maria Goretti, Saint Damien of Molokai, Saint Jose Sanchez del Rio, and many others. They all stood strong at the foot of the cross. They all gave themselves without reserve to God at a young age. 10 5 5/6/2021 Mother of Christ, pray for us. • The first three titles of Our Lady in the Litany begin with the word “Holy,” and now the second section has fourteen titles of our Lady that start with “Mother.” Three of these titles are relatively new to the Litany, two of them just added by Pope Francis a few months ago. • The Litany of Our Lady is also known as the Litany of Loreto, a small town on the Adriatic Coast in Italy where a major shrine to Our Blessed Mother is located, housing the house of our Lady from Nazareth, where the Annunciation took place. By angelic intervention, that holy house was moved to Loreto in the 13th century to protect it from the violence of the Crusades. • This Litany of Our Lady has been prayed there since at least 1531. 11 Mother of the Church • Did you know that it was during the Second Vatican Council that Mary was proclaimed “Mother of the Church?” That’s right. It was 1964. Although, St. Ambrose of Milan was already calling Mary “Mother of the Church” in the 4th century. • The Church is the mystical body of Christ, and since Mary is the Mother of Christ, Mary is also Mother of the Church, and from heaven will exercise care and vigilance over the members of the Church, especially when they ask for her powerful intercession. This title, “Mother of The Church” was added to the Litany only recently, in 1981, seven months after a would-be assassin tried to kill St. John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. 12 6 5/6/2021 Mother of Mercy, pray for us • This is one of the newest titles of Our Lady in the Litany, and was just added by papal decree on June 20 of 2020. But the title “Mother of Mercy” has been around forever, or at least since the early middle ages. In fact, “Mother of Mercy” is the second phrase of the Salve Regina or “Hail Holy Queen.” You’ll recognize it immediately. Listen: “Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope.” 13 Mother of divine grace, pray for us. • Grace is such a Catholic word! They say you can’t see grace because it’s invisible, but what do “they” know anyway? I say, you can see the effects of grace. You can see it in a smile, you can feel it in a handshake, you can give it with your helping hand, you can hear it in the kind and gentle and peaceful words of people who walk with Jesus, you can be inspired by it by those who courageously and steadfastly give witness to the Truth. St. Pius X, who had a great love for the Blessed Mother once wrote: “To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.” 14 7 5/6/2021 Mother of Hope, pray for us • This is the second brand new title of Our Lady in the Litany, and was just added by papal decree on June 20 of 2020. Like the new title “Mother of Mercy” this new title is also ancient, and found in the first words of the Hail Holy Queen when we refer to Our Lady as “Our Life, Our Sweetness, and Our Hope.” How do you react when you see a little statue of Our Lady in front of someone’s house? Or a statue of Our Lady of the Highways near an expressway? Or an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a billboard? I rejoice. Every image of the Blessed Mother brings hope because it tells us that Jesus is near. 15 Mother most pure, pray for us. • Outside the entrance to Our Lady of Peace Chapel in Rome where St. Josemaría is buried, you will find a serene white marble sculpture of the Blessed Mother titled “Mother of Fair Love.” • “She sits as silent sentinel and beckons all who pass by to invoke her maternal intercession for the gift of Holy Purity. A perpetual vigil light nearby signals the power of her intercession for all who wish to be faithful to vows, promises, and commitments of love.” 16 8 5/6/2021 Mother most chaste, pray for us. • It’s not that the Church is hung up on sex, or that the Church is prudish. It’s simply that the Church promotes and defends human dignity, and recognizes that the human race is the pinnacle of God’s visible Creation. Human beings have been created for eternity, to give glory to God. • That’s why the Church guards and elevates human sexuality, and protects it in the sacred bond of matrimony. Children have a right to know their mother and father. Children have a right to be born and raised in a family. And the human race is a blessing to planet Earth. • That’s why the virtue of chastity is necessary. It safeguards sex and places it within the stability of marriage. Sex is always safe, when used as God has intended. Between a man and a woman, open to life, within a marriage. In that context it is holy. 17 Mother inviolate, pray for us. • Inviolate means free from injury or violation. It is not to be confused with the word violet, or the color purple. Just as sunlight passes through a window without breaking the glass, the Blessed Mother remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus Christ. That’s what inviolate means. • Indeed, the birth of Jesus was a miraculous birth. The Early Fathers of the Church were nearly unanimous in this teaching – St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, St. Leo the Great, St. Gregory the Great. This title references the second Marian dogma of perpetual virginity. Mary was a virgin before, during, and after birth. 18 9 5/6/2021 Mother undefiled, pray for us. • And we have yet another title in the Litany referring to the miraculous nature of the birth of Christ and the perpetual virginity of Our Lady. While these adjectives sing the praises of Mary, in the background we cannot forget the outstanding protection that St. Joseph offered Her. St. Joseph was chosen by God to protect Mary and the Child Jesus. They lived in very dangerous times, life was short, and people could be brutal. But St. Joseph was always alert, ever obedient, and quick to take action to avoid danger. He was prudent and wise, not just strong. 19 Mother most amiable, pray for us. Mary is the most lovable woman who ever lived on the face of the earth, and it remains that way in heaven.